Reviews

Excellent food, neat clean ship, friendly and helpful crew. Bicycles were robust and easy to use, but a bit heavy and could have used one more gear for hills.

We had a wonderful experience with excellent guides. We enjoyed the opportunity to ride through beautiful countryside and stop in charming villages for lunch and coffee breaks. Our guides offered insightful information in each of the cities we visited. The crew was hardworking and provided excellent meals and a very clean boat for us. Our only concern was that the first day’s ride was much longer and more challenging than we expected. But the pleasure of the other days more than made up for that. We would highly recommend the trip!

Organization, food, facilities, professional and accommodating staff, communication, and tour route were all excellent. Would recommend to anyone interested in a bike and boat tour. Traveling on the boat along the canals and through the locks was also a wonderful way to see the sights. Highlights included the visits to Canadian War Cemeteries and Monuments and experiencing the towns, villages and vistas while riding a bike.

This was a trip with fun, exercise, adventure and learning. The staff was friendly and helpful, seemed to really enjoy their job.. Overall a wonderful way to see Belgium and Holland.

Good trip. Nice boat and good guides. This trip was less biking than I expected and more sailings and free time. No real negatives other than it is different than expected. You really only go one one National Park ride / hike. The rest of the rides were just through small villages or inland. I did the southern tour before and thought the scenery was better in that tour.

A really fantastic trip to the Friesan Islands aboard Leafde fan Fryslan – a beautiful sailing ship with a great captain and crew who worked hard throughout week to ensure we had a great holiday. A very competent skipper and first mate made sure everything was done in a very professional manner (yet always seemed to be relaxed – very important for us on our holidays!). The chef fed us of the best and the housekeeper answered every request with a smile. If you like fresh air, nature and exercise you will love this trip.

Brugges to Amsterdam aboard Magnifique This was an excellent boat/bike tour. The countryside is beautiful, the biking is relatively easy. Our guides – Arie and Japke – were wonderful and took very good care of us. The Magnifique is a beautiful boat and the crew is very accommodating. The meals were delicious especially the evening meal – it was always a delight. We packed our lunch every day and always stopped at a nice little resting spot to enjoy a beer with it. Just an absolutely wonderful week!

This was our 3rd boat/bike tour and we give it 3rd place. Captain Klaas was very friendly and helpful, staff however was not very outgoing. Tour guide’s briefings (Reinhard) were tedious and allways running late. Not much additional information from what was already in the booklets. Some people therefore skipped these talks. The biking was great although the cycle path was situated along the main road a number of times. We enjoyed visiting the beautiful villages along the way a lot. Personally we enjoyed Amsterdam- Brugge on the Magnifique (2017) the most, due to the atmosphere on board, followed closely by Passau- Vienna ( including Bratislava) on the MS Theodore Körner (2017).

I really enjoyed the wonderful crew and tour leader – it was a fun and authentic experience traveling with people from around Europe and getting an up close view of the Netherlands. The cycling was great exercise and we traveled through forests and on dykes that you can not really experience any other way.

Loved the whole trip! Our guides Japke and Arie were so wonderful, food was fabulous, met so many great people. Highly recommended!